Back inthis post, I listed some of my favorite marches that are on the site. I got a lot of positive feedback on the playlist idea and so I thought I’d do it again.
While there are no marches on this list, there’s a lot of great music and these are some of my go-to’s that I click on when I am looking for someting nostalgic and fun.
Send your favorite playlist that you’d like to share and I’ll post it along with any notes you’d like to make. Email address is BandSir.com@gmail.com.
Enjoy!
Dan
Cadet David Hemberger, Soloist, Portrait of a Trumpet Cadet 1st Lieutenant John Stuck, Soloist, Annie Laurie William Daggett, Alumni Soloist, Bluebells of Scotland Cadet Master Sergeant Brian Cable, Ballet Music from Prince Igor
A couple of years back, I had to replace the audio player on the site because the company that owned the original one went out of business. I switched to AudioIgniter Plus. I assumed that it had a similar download feature.
I was wrong.
After learning that you couldn’t download individual tracks, I have fixed it so that you can download any one of over 400 individual tracks on the site! (Anything hosted on YouTube will still not download.)
To the right of each track name is a download button. It looks like this:
Just click on the download button and the selected track will be downloaded to your browser’s default download directory.
Sorry it took so long!
Be well and stay safe out there,
Dan 74 & 76 JC
P.S. If you find any errors, please let me know so I can fix it. emaill me at BandSir@gmail.com. Thanks!
Believe it or not, BandSir.com is OVER twenty years old. Right around 21 depending on the exact date but it’s so close to 21 years that I’d feel comfortable buying BandSir.com a drink.
The roots of BandSir go back to 2004. I’ll quote myself here because I’m too lazy to write something new.
“Back in 2004-ish, fellow VFMA Alum Jeff Tobin visited me at my new home in Virginia. I had purchased a reconditioned Teac reel-to-reel tape deck, and I thought it would be a blast to thread up some of our old radio work as well as some of the VF Band recordings I’d been carrying around the world with me since we both graduated in 1976.
“Since I already had a personal web server running in the house, I put up a few of the recordings – there weren’t that many that got digitized that weekend – up on the Internet so that I’d be able to access them from anywhere. It was for my convenience.
“Subsequently, I pointed out to some of my fellow alumni that I had amassed and posted on my personal site quite a few digitized concerts. Word started getting around. Rather than make people click through my personal web site, I decided to register a separate domain name at my own expense that would be just for these recordings. As I did more digitizing, they’d show up there and people could listen or download them on demand. I could also accept content from other Bandies.”
Much to my chagrin, the exact dates of these events are lost to time. Having said that, just as a rescue dog has an assigned “gotcha date” instead of a real, honest-to-goodness birthday, I am choosing June 1, 2004 to be the official launch date of the predecessor to BandSir.com.
So, in two days, if you’re not driving or otherwise committed, please raise a glass to BandSir.com’s 21st anniversary! Of all the websites that are dedicated to the history and preservation of music at Valley Forge Military Academy and College, we’re the best.
Thanks to you all for listening, for contributing, and for being a part of the Philadelphia Orchestra of Military Bands, the Valley Forge Military Academy Band!
Featuring the combined choirs of of the Charles Ellis School, Miss Georgina Kenez, Director; and the Cadet Choir of Valley Forge Military Academy, Col. Robert V. Woodside, Organist and Choirmaster.
Check out “Cadet Choir and Glee Club 1962-63”, another VFMA music Record that’s been added to BandSir.com!
Many thanks to Bruce Daggett, 67, 69 JC, for providing the digital files.
Check out “Cadet Choir and Glee Club 1962-63”, another VFMA music Record that’s been added to BandSir.com!
Many thanks to Bruce Daggett, 67, 69 JC, for providing the digital files.
Bruce tells us, “Finally finished the second album and uploaded it just now, ‘Cadet Choir and Glee Club 1962-63.’ This ’62-’63 Glee Club [vinyl] recording wasn’t particularly well cared for by the person I got it from on E-Bay. Fortunately the software worked it’s magic in removing the worst of the pops and scratches. I cleaned up the album covers and retouched up some text on the backside.“
Bruce Daggett Band Sir! 67, 69 JC
It’s thanks to Bruce and all of our contibutors for providing musical memories to share with our fellow alumni and anyone else who may have an interest. I appreciate you all.
